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Welcome to Help Me Google!

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:07:35 +0000

Welcome to Help Me Google! This site is intended to cover all of the tips and tricks associated with getting accurate search results from google. Whether you are a user or a webmaster, here you will find information for getting the most out of your google experience.

Advanced Search - Specific Site

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:13:21 +0000

You may find yourself trying to search within a website and their search returns poor results. Often times, Google has a better search index of the website anyway. Thankfully, Google has a prefix command that provides a much more effective way of doing this kind of search.

For site specific searching, it involves the use of the prefix site:

Basic Search - Phrase Search

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:36:05 +0000

The topic of Phrase Search was briefly discussed in my article Basic Search - Automatic Exclusion, but here I plan to go in to a little more detail. When searching with Google, by entering keywords in the search field you are effectively searching for Word1 AND Word2 AND Word3, but not in that exact order. This can lead to inaccurate results from your search. Google also has a feature called "stemming" that is supposed to be user-friendly but can also be counter productive. Phrase Searching may be a good technique to get the accurate results you are looking for and it only requires adding quotations.

Basic Search - Automatic Exclusions

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:03:43 +0000

In order to speed up search queries, Google excludes common words like "where" and "how", as well as some single letters and digits. Google gives an example of this by using the movie title Star Wars Episode I. By doing a Google search for this title, you may also see entries for Star Wars Episode II. To work around this issue, there are two techniques that can be used:

Basic Search - Essentials

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:06:29 +0000

Google search is simple yet powerful. In its most basic form, typing in a word or set of words in the search box and then pressing the button labeled "Google Search" will display a results page with a list of websites or webpages that are related to your search terms. These results are displayed in order to relevance. However, with the vast amount of information available on the world wide web, accurate results are better obtained with the following techniques and considerations: